Street-car.



.D. A. L. MGDONALD. STREET GAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1912.

Patented-Mar. 4, 1913.

resided in t standing on street cars as heretofore built asource ofpassageway and extended room for passeners waiting' to pay their fares,a separate extended waiting place to the seats at either the level oftheconductors location enables hadvantage has been experienced by passenmyinvention. To this tlonsover the tracks horizontal and at the heightnecessary to clear the "ditio'nal acoommod .-0n the rear platformSTREET-CAR.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 31, 191 2 To all whom it may concern: I Be itknown that I, DUNCAN ALFRED Lao- 1 01.1)v MCDONALD, of the cityof'Montreal, ployed with a s i ,Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada,mechanism in 01 aveinvented certain new and useful Imlowered provementsin Street-Cars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exactdescript-ion of the same.

, My invention relates particularly to street cars of thepay-as-you-enter type.

I have discovered that in connection with the rear platform. A furtheradvantage is t at standard ti c'k equipment may be eniained in the rerrangemcnt of the brake mechanism howe 'er in that the pull upon themain brake lever is more direct and consequently gr: ater brakingefficiency is obtained. For fullcomprehension, however, of my Iinvention reference must be had to the ac considerable inconvenience anddanger to passengers boarding. and awaiting their .urn to pay theirfares before entering, has he necessity at rush hours of the steps untilthose ahead of have entered the car. A further dis-' this specificationin which similar reference characters indicate the same parts, and

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Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in ion them gitudinal verticalsectional view; Fig. 2 is a gers'preferring to stand in the open air,there being a lack of, accommodation and too great crowding on theplatforms.

To obviate these defects is the object of end I construct the car havingits pori Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 illustrates a modification. he car body isindicated at b and, ex cepting for the base or floor portion, it may ofany approved construction familiar to those skilled in the art; and

car with the floor of the truck as her and the portion between thetrucks horizontal and'lowered to about the evel at which it has been thepractice to'loeate the lowermost step. One side of the car' is providedwith-an opening divided in two parts, .one for entrance and the tofore,also planes, the parts at, cl, over the trucks being of the usual heightWhile the part 6 between these ends .is lowered'to practically the,levelatwhich the lowermost step is usually located. A pair of steps f f oneat each end of the car lead to the'front and rear platform.

no side of the car body i yisiong'ui ding the entering passengers tovidesv the doorway into entrance and the conductor who 1s incloseothereby in poexit portions h and-2' preferably twothirds and one-thirdrespectively of the full width of the doorway. A tortuous division railextends from the post 9 inwardly in a substantial quadrantally curvedportion is, then a straight portion m transversely to the car, andterminating in a portion n disposed parallel to the opposite side ofithecar and separated therefrom by sufficient space 'to provide apassage-way from the part of the car at the rear of the doorway to thefront part thereof, such rail ending at a point separated from a secondrail. This second rail consists of a straight portion 7) bearing thefare-box receptacle 9 and apo1- tion 7' within which the conductors seata is located. These two rails inclose the vestiside of the entrance.tages of this form of are required excepting The principal advancar arethat'nosteps at the front exit, ad- I ation is-provided for pass'enge'rswaiting to pay their fare by what may be termed an enlarged vestibule,the smokers and others neferring to standingare separated from the,conductor and consequently do not distract his attention from hisduties; and the front and rearplatforms being raised above 1m to seewhether I passengers are alight ing at the front and what istrainspiring on An advantage is ob companying drawings forming a part ofhorizontal sectional view taken on line A A bule of the car, and provideaccommodation for the conductor and an exit passageway.

The raised front platform of the car has an exit door t with steps asimilar to those with which pay-as-you-ente'r cars are usually provided.y

The two exits, one at tl a middle of the car and the other at the frontafi'ord passageway accommodation equal to the wide entrance to thevestibule.

This construction of car body necessitates a change in the brakemechanism. The rods 1: are taken direct from the underside of the lowerlevel body-base to the brake lever w on the rear truck instead ofthrough a vertically vibrating lever on the latter as heretofore thusreducing the lost motion and economizing the power of the brakecylinder.

In Fig. 3 the floor is shown with its first raised portions adjacent tothe main doorway and instead of adjacent to the platforms as in Figs. 1and 2, the idea of multiple horizontal floor nembers being maintained,however, such being the principal feature of my invention.

Whatl claim is as follows:- 1. A pay-as-you-enter street car havingfront'and rear platforms and a relatively depressed middle portion withsteps leading from the middle portion to the platforms and a steplessmiddle combination doorway having provision for entrance and exit, atortuous division dividing the doorway and consisting of a quadrantalportion, a portion transverse to the car and a portion parallel to theside ofthe car and a division with inclosure for the conductor, suchdivisions being relatively spaced,-'and an, exit doorway with steps atthe front platform.

2. A pay-as-you-enter stepless car having end platforms with relativelydepressed in termediate portion, and combination entrance and exitdoorway, a tortuous division dividing the doorway and consisting ofaqua'drantal portion, a portion transverseto the car and a portionparallel to the side of the car and a division with inclosure for theconductor, such divisions being. relatively spaced.

3. A pay-as-you-enter ste less car having end platforms with relative ydepressed intermediate portion, and combination entrance and exitdoorway, a tortuous division dividing the doorway and a divisiondividing the doorway from the body of the ear consisting of a straighttransverse member with a forward bend with inclosure for the conductor,such divisions being relatively spaced. I v I 4. A pay-as-you-enterstepless car having end platforms with relatively depressed intermediateportions, and combination entrance and exit doorways, a tortuousdivision dividing the doorway and consisting 01' a quadrantal portion, aportion transverse to the car and a portion parallel to the side of thecar, and a di\ ision dividing the doorway from the body of the carconsisting'of a straight transverse member with a forward bend withinclosure for the conductor, such divisions being relatively spaced.

5. A pay-as-you-enter stepless car having end platforms with relativelydepressed intermediate portion, and combination entrance and exitdoorway, a tortuous division dividing the doorway and a divisiondividing the doorway from the body of the car consisting of a straighttransverse member with a forward bend with inclosure for the conductor,such division being relatively spaced, the front of the car having anexit doorway, the entrance portion of the com bination doorwaybeingequal to the two exits.

6. A pay-as-you-enter stepless car having end platforms'with relativelydepressed intermediate portion, and combination en'- trance and exitdoorways, a tortuous division dividin a quadrantal portion, a portiontransverse to the caranda portion parallel to the side of the car, and adivision dividing the doorway from the body of the car consisting of astraight transverse member with a ward bend with inclosure for theconductor,

the doorway and consisting of forsuch divisions being relatively spaeed,the

specification in the prcsence'of two wit nesses.

DUNCAN A. Witnesses A. Micnsnn, F. E. MCLENNA.

L. MCDONALD.

an exit doorway, the e combination 'door-

